If we’d had the ability to tweet, Facebook “like” and otherwise share stuff we think is awesome online back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, no doubt classic "Sesame Street" clips like the “Pinball Number Count” would have gone viral like some of the “Street’s” latest segments.

Aside from the Katy Perry cleavage debacle (a video that made its Web rounds despite the fact that it won’t actually air on the children’s program), there have been a string of other videos passed around like lightning online, like Grover’s take on the now iconic Old Spice commercial “Smell like a Monster” and this week’s ode to rocking what you’ve got, “I Love My Hair.”

The Old Spice parody falls in the vein of some of “Sesame Street’s” other spoofs on more adult themes, like when HBO’s “True Blood” turned into “True Mud,” or when they did a riff on the AMC hit “Mad Men.”

In the video, Grover dons a towel in a replica of the now-familiar bathroom, and tells his viewers to look at themselves and then back to Grover. Sadly, his viewers aren’t monsters, but that doesn’t mean they can’t know what the word “on” means! “Anything is possible when you smell like a monster and know the word ‘on,’” he explains at the end.

But “Sesame Street” doesn’t limit its educational bits to just vocabulary, letters and counting – they also take on topics that affect self-esteem, like appreciating one’s natural hair color and texture.

In a video featuring the catchy tune “I Love my Hair,” a brown girl puppet tells viewers, "Don't need a trip to the beauty shop, 'cause I love what I got on top," and goes on to describe all the things her hair can do and how much she loves it just as it is.

A couple of great ones. Kermit the Frog and his reporting of the 3 little pigs house being blown down. Also and this one is from the muppets. The mahnahmah song. That is a very good one and is on youtube.

Holy COW! There are some awesome memories here... but no one has mentioned the "NO" song (and the word is no! no no no no no no no... no... no!) and not to mention my absolute favorite skit/song of ALL TIME: Captain Vegetable!!
It is I! Captain Vegetable! With my carrot, and my celery! Pure awesome...

Holy cow, where to start? Some of my favorites:
Paul Benedict (Mr.Bentley from "The Jeffersons") as the Number Painter. I loved those!
The spaceship that dropped off the lowercase n
Grover the Waiter (the gigantic hamburger...the alphabet soup..."HEY CHARLIE!!!...)
The little red ball that rolled through the flags..etc. which got turned into powder or cherries on the sundaes
The chef that wiped out with the cakes, pies...etc.
"My name is Fred...my name is Fred...when I get up I like to butter a slice'o.....BREAD!!"
The spaceship that dropped off the lowercase n
"It's Springtime" is a beautiful little song/visual which makes me happy and sad at the same time. The seasons, as the years in our lives...go so fast.

And oh yeah, I can definitely confirm...it is a CONTAINER of milk, folks. Trust me.

Sesame Street hands down taught me more about letters, numbers, and reading than anything I learned early on in school. They took learning and made it FUN. The colors, the catchy tunes, the characters. Nothing on TV today is even close. I tried to watch Sesame Street of today and was very disappointed, There is hardly any of what made it special or original back in the day (CGI characters, mundane lessons...etc.). My 7 year old daughter and I will catch some old Sesame clips on YouTube and she enjoys it like I did.

The doctor in the "Maria goes to the hospital" episode with his back to the camera, then he turns around & it's Noah Wyle. "Sesame street has been brought to you today by the letters E and R." The Count & Susan Sarandon getting caught in a rainstorm and having to knock on a castle door to use the phone, and the Count has to count the knocks. Kofi Annan negotiating a peace agreement between a bunch of Muppets who ALL want to sing the alphabet. Will.I.Am singing "What I Am". And finally..."Oh what is the letter we love? The one that we're extra fond of? It's not any trouble you know it's a W when you hear wuh wuh wuh wuh!"

i love sesaemstreet idnt really care much of how old i am i just love elmo and his songs and ii love cookie monster even though we learn the letter of the day on a cookie he still eats it but still it's a great loving sshow

I was watching the other day with my grandson and they did the " African animal alphabet song" and they said T was for tiger...no wonder everybody thinks tigers live in Africa. Still love the show and glad my grandson seems to enjoy it too at only 8 months old🙂

Hey, do they still have oscar the grouch and his worm? I agree about Bert and Ernie ( don't ask, don't tell ) but that is one of the reasons sesame street is so great! They teach kids to be tolerant of everyone.

Sounds like many (many, many) of us have happy memories of watching Sesame Street ... some when we were little ... some when our children were little ... my little girl quicklly easily learned her colors watching Sesame Street ... and much more.

My very favorite Sesame Street video of all time was one that probably ran in the mid to late 80s, and it featured a Creole band. Boy, could those guys rock. I remember going nuts for the music when I was a little kid. I've searched all over for the video on YouTube, but I can't find it. Does anyone know what band played in the video? I know it's a long shot, but I just had to give it a try.

If I had to pick just one favorite, it would have to be Somebody Come and Play, because it could be so sad and meloncholy if no one did, or they could end it happy with a friend. It still reminds me of sad rainy days with no one to play with, but Seasame Street to watch!

Ok so what about the lady in the big rocking chair who ended each skit with saying "and that's the truth", then sticking her tongue out and well, spitting? What's her name!? And to this day, I still count to ten in spanish, using the ss song "uno, dos, tres, quaaaatro, ciiiinco, seis!"

I love the version of 1,2,3,4 Fiest sang on the show, my children and I watch it all the time. We also enjoy "Letter B", "" I'd like to live on the moon" and a old video with muppet babies singing about how they are babies, rock them! Jason Mraz "Go outdoors" is very catchy too!!

Sing for yourself... A loaf of bread, a container of milk, a stick of butter...
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Nobody mentioned my fave 2 songs. The National Association of W Lovers and My Favorite Number Is 6.
"Oh 2 is your eyes and 1 is your nose and 5 is your fingers or your toes. 4 is the legs on an easy chair but there's no number that can compare with...6. When someone says Bert pick a number I always pick the one nobody picks. My favorite number is 6!"

James Taylor blitzed out of his mind singing Jelly man Kelly with the tuba and the group of kids. LOVE IT! I sing that with my 2 year old daughter all the time. And the ladybug picnic.🙂 i love Sesame Street!

Glad there are so many adult sesame street lovers out there! My favourites will date me a bit – but I loved Kermit's 'It's not easy being green', anything Grover (near/far, his skit about crime which also was done on the Muppet Show, as a waiter), the two-headed monster (can't remember name), cookie monster, masterpiece theater, yup-yup aliens, skit about ?Bert and Ernie? trying to trim the curtains and they trim the whole thing off to get them even...so many! Glad this article made me walk down memory lane🙂 Oh, and totally love the new Grover 'on' skit! hysterical!!!

Good afternoon everybody. I think there were at least two variations on the kid going to the store for groceries. 1. A loaf of bread, a quart of milk and a stick of butter. 2. A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter. Also one had a little black kid and the other one had a little white kid. There were no girls used at all.

Come and play, everything's a-okay...
I'm coming in late on this but what a shot of nostalgia reading this thread.
Abierto, Cerrado
Abierto, Cerrado, taught me my first Spanish words
and Linda and Bob taught me my first sign language
Grover and JonJon, so sweet
Ernie and Bert trying to even out the servings of pizza & root beer, or the chocolate milk
I'm almost 41 and still remember most of the original songs. Although I always wonder if my short attention span ...hey Big Bird!

The pre-elmo stuff, like the O that goes over anr over and over the horse, or the typewriter guy, the operatic orange, the Count singing the Batty Bat Bat waltz. Does anyone remember when Snuffy was visible only to Big Bird?

I remember that. Only Big Bird ever saw him, and everyone kept telling him he was too old for imaginary friends and to let it go already, but it wasn't that he was imaginary, it was just that they kept missing him. But it got so bad that even Big Bird began to think he was imaginary. Poor Bird, as Snuffy would say.

I loved those little rows of dots that came on the screen to music (da da da da da da da da...) and sometimes one would be the wrong color or something, then they'd have to reverse to fix the problem. Very clever!

Cookie is not veggie monster. Other characters try to make him eat veggies. "Veggies are an all the time food. Cooks are a soometimes food." Too which cookie responds by looking at a clock and saying "its sometime" then devouring the cookies. Kudos to sesame street for making critics happy by getting that message out without ending Cookie Mobster!

I don't remember exactly when i started wacthing Sesame Street but all the epsiodes are my fav...i still sing c is for cookie even when i'm not eating cookies (lol)...i really love the new episodes too...i watch even though my kids aren't a big fan of "the street" like i am...maybe i'll convert soon🙂

You Mean "I Got a New Way to Walk" sung by Destiny's Child. I watched the first episode when it first aired and I still watch! Nobody beats Sesame Street. Buying myself the Oscar sneakers. My child wears the Elmo NB sneakers. We checked out the Smithsonian visit. We are true fans. Folks, order the DVD that features the classic episodes. Invite your friends over and throw a 30 and over viewing party. Trust me on this one!

There's a Bird on Me
Two Little Girls and a Little Doll House
The Yip Yip Martians
Ladybug's Picnic
The Tweedlebugs
The Pinball Count
The Typewriter that goes nu-nu-nu-nu
I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
Me and my Llama
It Ain't Bad to Get Mad
Sugar Beets

I really like that this little brown puppet girl love love loves her hair ... she's happy with what she's got and doesn't need to go to the beauty shop and get her hair relaxed ... you go, girl ...love whatcha got!

Cowboy X!, Ladybug's Picnic, The Story of Quiet and Loud, Rumplestilskin (his name is "Bruce....Bruce Rumplestilskin")anything with Guy Smiley. Back in the 70's we used to cut high school, do bongs and watch Sesame Street.

I still remember 'Gimme 5' It was a Temptation style song about the number 5, with Gordon in the group. Give me 1 2 3 4 baby I love you more. Give me 5. All of the adult humor I missed as a kid is hilarious! My 2yr and I watch it daily!

Everyone listed my faves– Ladybug Picnic, I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, Alligator King, etc.– but no one said the letter M song, "Me and My Moose". "Me and My Moose we go MMM, MMM, MMM when we see the mess the monkey made on the moose with marmalade..."

Also good were the episodes where Ernie tied a string around his finger to remember something.

Another one that cracked me up was about the letter U. It was a pop song sung by its artist about being stuck on you or something, and the whole time he sang the letter U kept wrapping himself around the singer's leg. Forgot what that was but it was hilarious.

I have "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" too. I love that DVD!! My faves are REM singing with the Muppets, The Count counting sheep and the sheep getting tired of it and quitting so he has to call an all night counting place. He has the guy dress up like a sheep and leap over the bed while he counts him. Cookie Monster's Best Bites was a favorite tape of my kids growing up. I thought True Mud was hilarious. Sesame Street NEVER gets old.

Every episode that sesame street brings out is great I grew up in the caribbean and use to rush home from school just to be in time for it to start,I have no children but I'm still watching it good memories lol

Faves:
The shady dude who was always trying to sell letters out of his over coat ("Riiiiiiight...")
Captain Vegetable
the 'Some and None' song
Bert's extrovert brother, 'Bart' who looked just like Bert but wore his hair parted down the middle
...and does any one remember Don Music, the piano player who would always flip out and start banging his head on the keys? I found his behavior quite disturbing as a child, before I knew what a tortured artist was.

I can't choose just one. Everything that everyone has mentioned are all precious jewels of a time gone by. It is so wonderful how we as adults still cherish such invaluable education. Sesame Street is along the same lines as the original School House Rock. You just can't put a price on GOOD tv programming. Thank you! ...and by the way the "grocery list" is: a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. 🙂

I remember when Margaret Hamiltion aka The Wicked Witch Of The West came to visit Sesame Street back in the 70s. They aired it twice and then banished it forever. Would LOVE to see it again now. Anyone else remember that episode?

People here have mentioned some great bits. I've got 3 all time favorites:

1) Grover – "near and far"
2) Grover and JohnJohn (i know, it's multiple clips with them)
3) My absolute all time favorite – when the Sesame Street adults have to explain Mr. Hooper's passing to Big Bird. It's got to be the most honest, open, and saddest thing to air on tv. I get misty just thinking about it. If you can watch that and not feel yourself tearing apart at least a little...there's something seriously wrong with you.

Oh I think it was grover and otherswho sang: sing, sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong!~~~ I was 2 when Sesame Street started and I watched probably till I was ten. I had my 1st child at 20 and watched till he was about 8 and now I'm starting again with a 5 year old. Sad thing is my 5 yo is much more into cartoons than Sesame Street.

Speaking of Grover and Fat Blue, they did a spoof called Extreme Home Makeover. In the end Fat Blue starts crying after Grover removed his front door. Grover responds with "Are we getting the crying? This has value!"

Sesame Street does a lot of parodies! I love to watch with my daughter just to see what they do. My personal favorite is Meal or No Meal - the Muppet looked just like Howie Mandel and Cookie Monster was the 'baker'. I also like Monsterpiece Theater and Grouch Eye for the Nice Guy. Good stuff!

OH MAN!!! I remember that kiid walking down the street trying to remember what his mom said. I was just thinking me and my Llama this w/e too. And do you remember the working dog. Imma dog, imma working dog, imma hard working dog...MEMORIES!!!

Isn't PBS a "socialist" channel? Paid for by the government for the people?Damn you Obama for educating our kids! I knew Elmo was a Marxist! All red and everything. The jig is up Ernie and Bert! We won't ask and please don't tell, we really don't want to know. Lol. Jk.

Obama's "Al Gore Moment"; so Obama invented PBS, funny seems to me it has been around since before he was even born, or at least since he was in diapers. Also; just what has Obabma accomplished with regards to education, please enlighten me. So far all I have seen is Obama and Michelle doing photo ops.

i saw a few comments here also mentioning that "loaf of bwead, a quart a milk...and a stick a-butta!" bit... i remember a few friends of mine say that as a joke here and there some 25 years ago, and i still say that to my wife now when she tells me to bring some things from the store on the way home... and i'm also in my 40's. amazing what an influence that has on us all so many years later. i still remember that clip, the kid and his mother, the afros back then... so funny to remember that...
there were several other clips from that period, but that's what i fondly remember and still think about.....